The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-06


the lady-bug is bnsily engaged in destroy
ing IS many as possible.
IT is claimed that sorrel can be eradi-
caied from fields by the generous applica-
ton of unleached wood ashes.
Keep the hens that mott their feathers |
early, as they will begin to lay before win |
| ter. 1t requires about three months for |
| hens to mott.
Goats for milk are carefully bred N En- |
| gland, a registry book recording their pedi- |
| gree, and only meritorious females are
used for breeding.
The farmer who was careless in regard to
| the selection of his seed corn has had
| plenty of opportunity recently to expert
ment in replantlng or giving up his corn
| crop for bad job.
Never use sulphur on the bodies of
| Young chicks for gapes or any other dis
| ease. Lard and sulphur applied when in
the downy state will cause sores and torture
sometimes death. This we have found
true, to our cost.
Work the strawberry plants well now
and remove all the grass and weeds be-
tween them. If plentiful supply of
manure be used the plants may be allowed
to throw out large number of runners,
but between the rows should be kept clean.
In pruning trees of any kind it is better
to leave one strong branch or limb than
|
dening. 1t is better to keep limbs thinned
out than to cut back and make too close
heads. Let the suns rays in all through
the tree.
Glover is one of the greatest consumers
of lime among farm crops, aud this ex.
plains the marvellous effect Of sulphate OF
lime or land plaster in making clover
catch. On heavy soil dressing of 100
pounds of gypsum per acre rarely fails to
bring good clover.
In twenty days the eggs of one hen
would exceed the weight of her body. So
of any bird. Yet the whole of that mass
of albumen is drawn directly from her
blood. IL stlnted in food, OF course, it
would limit the number as well as the size
OF the eggs.
Young chickens, as soon as weaned,
should be provided with suitable perches.
Make them low and on level. 1t will be
better for their health to get the young
fowls off the ground as soon as possible.
Do not neglect to provide door or slide.
A heavy mulch between the rows of
raspberries and blackberries will double
the crop of fruit, and save time in Guilt
waiting; but, just before applying it, go
through them with cultivator and hoe,
treating The suckers that have sprung up
as noxious weeds.
The ounce is great feeder and needs
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so much manure and such thorough Guilt
walton. If the trees be neglected it is like
~ that there will be no fruit, but If there
shall, it will be of small growth and un-
slightly appearance.
The spring litter of pigs should be re-
moved from the SOW and turned on the
clover. A warm mess in the morning aud
at night of scalded ground oats and mid
dlings will cause them to grow very rapidly,
they will also secure large share of
their food in the field.
J Bermuda grass grows wherever it has
been given a start in Texas, and is fast get
! ting a hold on the good opinion of stock
farmers. 1t has been largely confined to
lawn purposes, but now its use as pasture
grass is commencing it to all who have
stock to graze.-Texas Live Stock Journal.
J Good butter COWS will make pound of
butter to every fourteen to eighteen pounds
! of milk. General purpose COWS" want
from twenty-five TO thirty one pounds,
{ and some cows would require fifty pounds
I OF milk to make pound of butter. Aver
2 age diaries require somewhere about
twenty pounds of milk to make q
q | pound OF butter.
3 After shearing, ticks will emigrate from
4 the shorn sheep to the lamb then is the
e time to drive the ticks out of the flocks.
e Watch the lambs, says Farm and Home,
] and when the ticks have colonized them
|
e pounds refuse tobacco boiled in gallon or
> two of water, then diluted to make one
: barrel, will do for 100 lambs.
|. 1t is assumed that, of course, the milk
pail should be thoroughly washed night
and morning, and as soon as possible after
the COW is MIXED. At this season a slight
J., | neglect in this matter will soon make the
+ milk unfit to use. Half of the complaints
OF city milk are due to carelessness in
handling it, aud especially in cleaning
> the cans in which it is carried around for
sale.
! Lice is the SUMMER drawbac tx to poultry
Old nests, filthy floors and fowls crowded
Il on the roosts cause lice to breed very
rapidly, aud as the vermin begin to attack
a the hens the production Of eggs diminishe;
/ until very few eggs are obtained. The
final result is that the fowls are deoilitaged
|; from attacks of the pests, and quickly sue
!, cumb to roup and cholera. The poultry
house must be kept clean and we'll white.
washed, while kerosene and carbolic acid
q may be used freely in every part.
u There has been further decline in the
cheese market, and buyers have come to
n the conclusion that it is better to hold of
q | until there is some assurance that bottom
has been touched. Country quotations are
Y about l cent lower than last week, and as q
8 very large make is reported IN Canada and
the States dealers confidence in the future
, is considerably shaken. Prices are un
4 settled, but 9 = cents is considered a full
IN | selling rate for best New York or Vermont
and cents for choice Western.
y Without close examination, many good
: farmers have believed that wheat, when
grazed or winter-killed is often changed to
chess or cheat. The following condition:
y have favored this opinion When chess /,
q shaded or partly smothered by denss
i growth of wheat, the plants are quite small
and unseen; we have measured them only
y two inches high, ripening single seed, and
g quite unseen by most observers. But where
9 the wheat is killed IN any way, and the
chess is allowed free space, the plant,
70 | spring up and grow luxuriantly.
l. Gentleman.
Murder and Suicfds.
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